The Autobiography of Alfred Austin Poet Laureate 1835 1910 volume 1
The Autobiography of Alfred Austin Poet Laureate 1835 1910 volume 1
Alfred Austin
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But the most indulgent criticism could not have claimed for them the slightest approach to permanent value. The ensuing Spring and Summer of 1864 were passed in the same purposeless manner, with nothing to show for the creeping-on of time. I continued to read in my garden, to ride through woods and lanes, to offer hospitality, and to accept it. The distance from London was short, the journey easy ; and a bachelor's house, however small, and however unluxurious his establishment, offers a freedo...m that not unoften makes it more attractive than that of married folk. The in- stitution of week - end visits had not then come into fashion ; a more casual hospitality still main- taining old tradition, and rendering conversation more serious and solid, since confined to fewer people. I travelled about our own lovely land (now more fully known to me) much less than I ought to have done, though some of the more picturesque spots of Somersetshire and Devon- shire drew me towards them. But their combes, 158 AUTOBIOGRAPHY chap, vi countless streams, strong sea-bluffs, bold headlands, and lonely moorlands, much as they enchanted one, stirred no string in the seemingly henceforth dumb instrument I once had counted on as the chief companion and consolation of my life.
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